Please tell me you’ve seen the new OFF! product and you’re already using it. Their newest family care line is called “Smooth & Dry” and delivers just what the title suggests. Gone is the oil spill from your skin.
I saw this advertised in a magazine and picked up a bottle to try while outdoors this [...]

I’ve been blessed with beautiful hair, so I’ve been told. Many stylists are awed by how thick it is; always telling me how lucky I am and how it must be so nice to have hair to manageable.
I politely thank them knowing full well that they are paid to say that, and it could be [...]

As you know from previous stories, I either sleep like a rock or “roil”. Lately, it’s been the old tossing and turning for me until my life altering trip to Ikea.
In a shopping frenzy I found myself grabbing merchandise with wild abandon. One of the items I tossed into my cart without much [...]

This new generation of sleeping pills that boasts no side effects is ruining the self-loathing consciousness of this world.
I say this because the countless nights I spend roiling (that word, in my mind, means a combination of rolling – as in tossing and turning- and broiling – as in, my own stew) are being erased [...]

by Gidge

I am a self professed girly girl. I sit here, smugly declaring this wearing no make up and sporting my VOTE FOR PEDRO t-shirt. Regardless, my inner soul is girly, I swear it is. And this inner soul is constantly in search of girly products to add to my [...]

Things We Can’t Live Without is a new feature at PnP and every couple of weeks we’ll be sharing our own personal must-haves with you. This info will come in very handy should you ever wish to send us presents.
In the words of everyone’s favorite governess, these are a few of our favorite things…
Mary Can’t [...]

Do you own a lot of t-shirts that have yellow stained arm pits? I do.
Over the past few years I’ve noticed my sweat glands have changed and it doesn’t take much for me to have a hot flash (which I blame on pregnancy and hormones).
I have tried every brand you can find in the deodorant [...]

While wandering through the wilds of the Walmart Supercenter in Waukegan two weeks ago, I ran into a product in the cosmetics section that gave me pause — Revlon ColorStay Nail Polish. It alleged that it would last for 10 days.
This seemed like a mighty bold claim to me but I’d used their other products [...]

In our house, we’re big on the lotion. We all have very dry skin and after a long and arduous (read: freezing) spring in New England, we’re slathering lotion on all day long. It’s like we’re living in the desert except it does nothing but rain.
But I digress. Last week the wonderful folks from Method [...]

After seeing the movie Dreamgirls, I left the theater with the firm decision that I would be purchasing false eyelashes so as to achieve Beyonce’s sexy, heavy-lashed look.
Trotting off to Sephora, I planned to buy and have installed some lovely, long lashes. However, the sales person immediately derailed my plan and said, “You don’t want [...]

Getting a young child to properly wash their hands is difficult, so when a friend recommended we try SquidSoap I quickly snatched up this new product. It was attractive, fun and interactive, which is everything needed to keep our son’s attention. My hope was that he’d even remember to wash his hands after using the [...]

My hair is just frizzy enough to need to be straightened with a hair dryer and flat iron. It is just straight enough to need some serious coaxing to be curly.
The beautiful cork screw curls that I would love to have only appear on the bottom layer of my excessively thick mop. Needless to [...]

by Izzy

The Dove SkinVitalizer is a handheld device that washes and/or exfoliates your face. I wouldn’t call it a brush because there are no bristles but it does use two-sided cleansing pads that attach securely to the device with a Velcro-like material on the handle.
One side of the pad is smooth for washing and the [...]

Milkscreen is a new product that helps a nursing mother figure out exactly when her breastmilk is alcohol-free after having a drink.
I was able to chat recently on the phone with Milkscreen co-founder Julie Jumonville, an engineer by trade and a 35-year-old Texas mother of two.
“We all have our Mommy guilt,” Jumonville said, explaining the [...]

I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but when I find a product I absolutely love, especially cosmetics, I’ll go and buy a lot of it! You know, in case they’d quit making it all of a sudden (which seems to frequently happen to me). I doubt they’ll quit making this lip balm anytime [...]